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What happens to the member function in the class when copy constructor is invoked?

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Last Update: July 03, 2008 Asked by: vidya

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Submitted by: bishoy

Member functions, not as a lot of people expect; have only one instance loaded in memory when the program is run. All constructors included copy constructor target loading member variable, but member functions have their single instances always loaded in memory and ready to be called.

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November 26, 2007 01:22:32

vinod kumar

RE: What happens to the member function in the class w...

Only member function should have authority to invoke any other member function.
But constructor is used to initialise the values to data members. they are constant it cannot be invoked any other constuctor. If they are copied compiler should not understand what is member function and what is constructor so ambiquity will be raised.

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January 10, 2008 05:22:51

bishoy

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RE: What happens to the member function in the class when copy constructor is invoked?

Member functions not as a lot of people expect; have only one instance loaded in memory when the program is run. All constructors included copy constructor target loading member variable but member functions have their single instances always loaded in memory and ready to be called.

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July 03, 2008 09:46:43

sivakumar.v

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RE: What happens to the member function in the class when copy constructor is invoked?

Well the basic answer is not possible to call copy constructor explicitly within a function again. Because in the member function it tries to shadow the parameter which is defined at the caller side.

Hence we cannot invoke copy constructor inside a function.

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